Acts and Regulations

2014, c.113 - Human Tissue Gift Act

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Consent for transplant
3(1)A person who has attained the age of 19 years, is mentally competent to consent, and is able to make a free and informed decision may consent in writing, signed by him or her, to the removal from his or her body of tissue specified in the consent and its implantation in the body of another living person.
3(2)Despite subsection (1), a consent given by a person under this section who had not attained the age of 19 years, was not mentally competent to consent, or was not able to make a free and informed decision, is still valid for the purposes of this Act if the person who acted upon it had no reason to believe that the person who gave it had not attained the age of 19 years, was not mentally competent to consent or was not able to make a free and informed decision, as the case may be.
3(3)A consent given under this section is full authority for any medical practitioner to
(a) make any examination necessary to assure medical acceptability of the tissue specified in the consent, and
(b) remove that tissue from the body of the person who gave the consent.
2004, c.H-12.5, s.3